Bongo Fury

£ 2.50 or £2.99 postage i think just normal delivery cost, have been told if its in stock they post it straight away, so no need for next day delivery charges.

We have the built in appliances, so will the one from Maplin be any good for us or the one from Ebay

Serious point here. I have banked on the fact that BF membres have said that leisure batteries are designed (and dont mind) to be run flat. My coolbox and inverter are doing that at times (cant be dead flat I guess cuase I havent blown a 25amp fuse in the charging system yet). BUT, I'm beginning to wonder iif even leisure batteries with have their capacity to recieve charge reduced if used in this manner i.e. low voltage sensors shoule be fitted where possible.

Any views?

Mike

As long as the leisure battery is not left flat for very long it should be OK.

So, not really worth fitting the accusaver if it is a dedicated secondary battery.

Sorry if we seem thick. We have electric hook up but no leisure battery. We were thinking of getting one fitted but reading the above you don't seem to be able to run anything on them for long. What do the majority of people actually use them for?

Hair straighteners... Her... Not me
Charging camcorder... No 12V adapter

The reason i had a problem was i ran the coolbox constantly (doh) plus i had a duff battery as well that would not take a charge,and never started my engine for three days (doh again ) all sorted now ,and as long as i start my engine every now and again to re charge should be no more problems, you can run your cigar lighter, blinds ,radio,interior lights from your leisure battery (bound to be other things as well ) without having to worry about running your starting battery flat.

It doesn't matter what you run from your secondary leisure battery.

What does matter is that there is no possibility that you ever run down your main engine battery.

Josh N Sarah - you raise a good point. I think the single most important reason is that if you 'go wild' you will ultimately be tempted to run something from the cigarette lighter. To do that from the starter battery is to court being stuck with an unbumpable car in the middle of nowhere. Once you have a leisure battery, that risk disappears. But you are right, they are not a nuclear power station

Mike

Thanks, that helps. Interior lights would be handy instead of faffing around with rechargeable lantern like we do at the moment.

daveblueozzie wrote:The reason i had a problem was i ran the coolbox constantly (doh) plus i had a duff battery as well that would not take a charge,and never started my engine for three days (doh again ) all sorted now ,and as long as i start my engine every now and again to re charge should be no more problems, you can run your cigar lighter, blinds ,radio,interior lights from your leisure battery (bound to be other things as well ) without having to worry about running your starting battery flat.

Also remember to charge the leisure battery from the mains a couple of times a year - the van charging system doesn't fully charge the leisure battery.

Thanks for the link to the site Dave up north, I too have had a leisure battery installed recently (cheers again daveblueozzie)

And as i understand it, if running a coolbox from the leisure battery,and the gizmo from maplins is employed,the clever little gadget will shut down the power supply from the leisure battery before the leisure battery is so depleted of electricity that it cant run the coolbox anyway.

For the sake of the miniscule cost of this clever device,surely its worth employing from the point of view that it would no longer be neccessary to replace fuses every time the l/b is run flat? As i understand it, the l/b would be shut down BEFORE its so depleted to blow a fuse?
(if i understand the concept correctly?)

You could be right there, bdc.